Parul Mukherjee

She was particularly important in strengthening the women's wing of Anushilan Samiti through efforts such as recruitment, the organisation of study circles and the teaching of self-defence techniques.

In the aftermath of the partition of India, she became the supporter of a refugee colony in Kolkata, where she stood vigil and established schools.

[4] Parul's older brother Amulya was involved in the revolutionary organisation Anushilan Samiti[2][4] and was an important local leader.

[4] Women revolutionaries were mostly kept out of planning major strategies and activities and were for the most part allotted and assigned specific duties.

[2] As a revolutionary, Mukherjee frequently shifted location, living with Anushilan Samiti units in places such as Rangpur, Barisal and Khulna.

[2] In order to operate unnoticed, especially since she was physically trained, Mukherjee at times concealed herself through masquerading as a man, wearing shirts and trousers.

[2] Mukherjee was eventually brought to an Anushilan Samiti hideout in Titagarh, where revolutionaries made and stored explosives.

[2] The revolutionaries disguised their hideout as a family residence;[4] Mukherjee, who was in Khulna at the time, was invited and set to pose as the housewife of Dasgupta's nephew.

[4] The two other revolutionaries in the house at the time, Dasgupta and Shyam Binode Pal had been ready to leave just as the police arrived.

[4] All three revolutionaries were arrested on the suspicion of their house having served as the headquarters of a "conspiracy to wage war against the King-Emperor and deprive him by force of the sovereignty of a part of empire".

The police placed Mukherjee under both mental and physical pressure in an attempt to gain information on Anushilan Samiti.

[2] On 21 September 1935 she was convicted under the Bengal Criminal Law Amendment[9] for the possession of unlicensed firearms[2] and sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment.

[6][12] She is recorded to have stood vigil during the nights with a stick and a torch, sheltered stray animals, and to have set up schools for the refugees.